German reciprocals

German marks reciprocity with the reciprocal pronoun einander and with sich, the form of the third person reflexive. [GH08] split sich into two lexical entries of one shape: pronominal sich, a noun phrase that is only reflexive, and clitic sich, a middle marker that is also reciprocal. Only clitic sich is reciprocal, so sich has no reciprocal reading where only a noun phrase can stand, after a preposition, in the forefield, coordinated or stressed; after a preposition einander is the only reciprocal (an-einander). On [Sil12]'s analysis (footnotes 13 and 38), clitic sich marks a syntactically formed reciprocal verb, as Romance se does: embedded under sagen 'say', a sich reciprocal lacks the "I" reading that einander allows.

References

• V. Gast and F. Haas, On Reciprocal and Reflexive Uses of Anaphors in German and Other European Languages (2008)
• T. Siloni, Reciprocal Verbs and Symmetry (2012)

def German.Reciprocals.einander : Reciprocal.Marker

The marker of the reciprocal pronoun einander.

Equations

• German.Reciprocals.einander = German.Pronouns.einander.toMarker

def German.Reciprocals.sich : Reciprocal.Marker

sich in its reciprocal use: the clitic sich of [GH08], which marks the predicate rather than filling the object slot and also has the reflexive reading.

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def German.Reciprocals.markers : Finset Reciprocal.Marker

The reciprocal marker inventory.

Equations

• German.Reciprocals.markers = {German.Reciprocals.einander, German.Reciprocals.sich}